JPSO Busts UPS Driver for Weed Shipping Scheme

quote:Narcotics detectives with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrested four people and seized more than 25 pounds of marijuana during an investigation into a scheme to mail the drug from California to Louisiana. UPS driver Joel Ringer, 51, of Metairie is accused of delivering pot parcels to accomplice Derek Fabacher, 27, also of Metairie, in exchange for money and portion of the marijuana, arrest reports said.

quote:The tipster said someone in California mailed large quantities of marijuana to Fabacher. The packages were sent to a bogus address in St. Bernard Parish. But the tipster told investigators Ringer would intercept them through his job as a driver with UPS and take the packages to Fabacher, according to the arrest reports.